Snargate Kent Family History Guide

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Snargate is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Dunstan

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1552
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1563

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

  • Fairfield
  • Kenardington
  • Appledore
  • Warehorne
  • Ebony
  • Brenzett

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SNARGATE, a parish in Romney-Marsh district, Kent; 1½ mile SE of Appledore r. station, and 6 WNW of New Romney. Post town, Brookland, under Folkestone.

Acres, 1,591. Real property, £3,763. Pop., 71. Houses, 15. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a rectory, united with Snave, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £230. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is early English and good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SNARGATE (St. Dunstan), a parish, in the union of Romney-Marsh, and liberties of Romney-Marsh and New Romney, though locally in the hundred of Aloesbridge, lathe of Shepway, E. division of Kent, 5½ miles (N. W. by W.) from New Romney; containing 80 inhabitants. It consists of 1591 acres, of which 43 are marsh land. The living is a rectory, united to the rectory of Snave, and valued in the king’s books at £17. 6. 8.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Kent, Snargate – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Snargate, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Kent, Snargate – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Romney Marsh census index 1851, piece no. HO107/1634
Author: Folkestone & District Family History Society

England, Kent, Snargate – Census – 1891 – Indexes ( 1 )
Romney Marsh surname census index 1891, piece no. RG12/0754 & RG12/0755
Author: Folkestone & District Family History Society

England, Kent, Snargate – Church records ( 3 )
Archdeacon’s transcripts, 1563-1812; Bishop’s transcripts, 1603-1914
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Snargate (Kent)

Parish chest records, 1704-1926
Author: Snargate (Kent)

Parish registers for Snargate, 1552-1988
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Snargate (Kent)

England, Kent, Snargate – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
A Selection of Kent parish register transcripts
Author: Kent Family History Society. Global Branch (England)

England, Kent, Snargate – Land and property ( 3 )
Deeds of Kent, 1780-1854

Harold Body collection, 1728

Stephen C. Millet Jr. collection, 1629-1761

England, Kent, Snargate – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest records, 1704-1926
Author: Snargate (Kent)

England, Kent, Snargate – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parishes of Snargate and Kenardington, 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Kent); Kent Archives Office

Administration

  • Civil Registration District: Romney Marsh
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
  • Diocese: Canterbury
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1864 – Lympne, Post-1863 – South Lympne
  • Poor Law Union: Romney Marsh
  • Hundred: Romney Marsh Liberty
  • Province: Canterbury